The standard inner product on R^n (or C^n) distributes over addition.

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Inner products are additive in both slots: $\langle x+y,z\rangle=\langle x,z\rangle+\langle y,z\rangle$ and $\langle x,y+z\rangle=\langle x,y\rangle+\langle x,z\rangle$. In complex spaces additivity still holds; it is scalar multiplication in the first slot that requires conjugation.

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